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TIFF 2012: Berberian Sound Studio Review
There is a key to unlocking Peter Strickland’s dense and puzzling Berberian Sound Studio. A line of dialogue that comes from the director of the film within the film. A slip of the tongue. In movies...
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Mamo’s #TIFF12 Coverage, Part One: You Are Here
Live from the Toronto International Film Festival 2012! Join us as we grab a bite to eat between shows and discuss the American Beauty live-read, Midnight Madness’ Dredd 3D, Peter Mettler’s The End of...
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TIFF 2012: Amour [review]
Michael Haneke wants to remind us all that we are going to die someday, and that the long days journey into night is probably not going to be pleasant one. He accomplishes this mightily in the...
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TIFF 2012: 7 Boxes [review]
It’s a hot day in the capital city of Paraguay and the exchange rate for US Dollars is running as high as the mercury in Asunción’s bustling marketplace. Narrow rows of stalls glutted with people,...
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TIFF 2012: The Hunt Review
There is no arguing the craft on display in Thomas Vinterberg’s small-town, big-drama The Hunt. Mads Mikkelsen turns in the performance of his career (and if you look back on his career so far that is...
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TIFF 2012 Review: Frances Ha
Director: Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale, Greenberg, Kicking and Screaming) Screenplay: Noah Baumbach & Greta Gerwig Producers: Mallary Davenport, Avi Federgreen, Jennifer Jonas Starring:...
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Mamo’s #TIFF12 Coverage, Part Two: We Are Here
Special guest star Shelagh Rowan-Legg joins us on Day 4 of the Toronto International Film Festival 2012! We discuss Argo, Much Ado About Nothing, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, A Liar’s...
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TIFF 2012 / Cinephilia Française: Something in the Air (2012)
“Nothing tells memories from ordinary moments. Only afterwards do they claim remembrance on account of their scars.” – from Chris Marker’s La Jetée (1962) By 1971, the year in which Olivier Assayas’...
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TIFF 2012: I Declare War Review
One weekend day a number of the nerdier kids from the local middle school gather their sticks and twine and balloons filled with red dye, and head into the local woods to play capture-the-flag. Oh,...
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TIFF 2012 Review: Hellbenders
“I‘m a woman, and you’re a catholic. Everything I do is a sin.” A taste of the in-your-face comedy on display in J.T. Petty’s Hellbenders. Based upon the writer-director’s own graphic novel and...
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TIFF 2012 Review: Brass Teapot
Alice (the always wonderful Juno Temple) and John (that kid from Sky High, Michael Angarano) are a cute, if callow, young couple caught in the cogs of the economic downturn. His business degree has...
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TIFF 2012 Review: To the Wonder
“Pourqoi pas Toujours?” Is the question on the mind of Terrence Malick in his latest emotive cinematic meditation. The french phrase which translates to “Why not always?” could have easily been an...
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Mamo’s #TIFF12 Coverage, Part Three: You Are Where?
Special guest star Justin Souther joins us on Day 7 of the Toronto International Film Festival 2012! Our coverage of the festival continues with conversation about Looper, Lords of Salem, At Any...
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TIFF 2012 Review: The Impossible
“Just close your eyes and think of something nice” is a refrain repeated several times during J.A. Bayona’s Tsunami disaster film that sees Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts (and their three children)...
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TIFF 2012 Review: Come Out And Play
A textbook case of a remake failing improve on an original classic, Come Out And Play not only loses the context of the hidden Narciso Ibáñez Serrador directed gem, which was released on heels of the...
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Mamo’s #TIFF12 Coverage, Part Four: Here We Are
Special guest star Kurt Halfyard joins us on Day 9 of the Toronto International Film Festival 2012 for more reactions and response! We talk To The Wonder, Gangs of Wasseypur, Jump, Leviathan, Penance,...
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TIFF 2012 Review: Gangs of Wasseypur
Pulling back, deliberately and slowly, from a soap-opera on the TV which is all song and dance and character introductions, the 315 minute long Gangs of Wasseypur kicks off with a single shot Johnnie...
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TIFF 2012 Review: Byzantium
Two sisters try to lay low in Dublin while being pursued by long-coated inspectors. Having committed a rather kinetic and conspicuous murder in the opening sequence of the film, the Webb sisters are...
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Mamo’s #TIFF12 Coverage, Part Five: Where Is Here
Special guest star Andrew Robinson joins us on the last day of the Toronto International Film Festival 2012 for our final TIFF ’12 podcast! We wrap up the festival including the audience choice award...
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Video Reviews: TIFF Midnight Madness (all of ‘em)
The gang assembled for TIFF almost every night at Midnight to catch up on the days films as well as anticipate what gory and gonzo cinema would scar our psyche in the Midnight Madness sidebar. Below...
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TIFF 2012 Review: Cloud Atlas
Where to begin with Cloud Atlas? The interminably long film is basically the Voltron of off-beat science fiction movies. This is what happens when you take five (or six) familiar genre-stories and...
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Greetings from Tim Buckley [trailer]
One of the best rock albums of the past 20 years is undoubtedly Jeff Buckley’s “Grace” record. His follow-ups were pretty great too but something about that album just soars in my memory and heart and...
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Cinecast Episode 273 – It’s TIFF 2012!
Thanks once again to Ryan McNeil of The Matinee for dropping back in for our huge TIFF recap (and almost spoiler-free!). Andrew sits in quiet solitude on the sofa, acting mainly as an audience member...
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TIFF 2012 Review: Spring Breakers
Bikini clad Disney girls go off the rails in Spring Breakers, a candy-coloured sledgehammer satire from notorious provocateur Harmony Korine. The story of four sexy college girls who rob a fast food...
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The Massive Row Three TIFF12 Summary
Welcome to our fifth annual Toronto International Film Festival Mega-Sized wrap-up post. Getting several Row Three contributors and friends to provide over 100 capsule reviews and a quick identifier...
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